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Exploring UFOs and Extraterrestrial LifeTue, 03 Mar 2015 16:42:09 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Retired airline captain reflects on UFO photohttp://www.openminds.tv/retired-airline-captain-reflects-ufo-photo/31242
http://www.openminds.tv/retired-airline-captain-reflects-ufo-photo/31242#commentsFri, 05 Dec 2014 20:36:49 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=31242A man seemingly photographed three UFOs in the sky recently over the Lincolnshire city of Lincoln in England. Paul Howard, a retired airline captain, reportedly snapped the photo because the sunset was particularly beautiful that day. He took the photo, but did not notice the three unusual objects that appear in the photo until he ...

]]>A man seemingly photographed three UFOs in the sky recently over the Lincolnshire city of Lincoln in England.

Paul Howard, a retired airline captain, reportedly snapped the photo because the sunset was particularly beautiful that day. He took the photo, but did not notice the three unusual objects that appear in the photo until he reviewed it later.

He explains to the Lincolnshire Echo, “I hadn’t noticed anything strange when I took the photo but I was quite surprised to see three very interesting saucer-like shapes in the sky when I looked at the picture on my computer.”

The photo showing the three UFOs. (Credit: Lincolnshire Echo/Paul Howard)

Having spent thirty-three years as an airline captain, Howard says he never saw anything in the sky that he couldn’t explain. “So I was quite chuffed to have captured three UFOs on my camera,” he states.

The three objects that appear in his photo strongly resemble objects that appear in many other UFO photos–simple reflections from ceiling lights behind the photographer. Sure enough, it dawned on Howard that he had been inside when he snapped the photo, and he unintentionally “caught the reflection of the kitchen lights in the window.”

Although most UFOs, like the ones in Howard’s photo, can eventually be identified, there are still many mysterious physical aerial objects that cannot be identified. It is important to bring attention to instances like this photo to help people become better educated observers. By better familiarizing observers with the mundane, fewer of these objects will be reported as UFOs, and more attention can be placed on those truly mysterious aerial objects.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/retired-airline-captain-reflects-ufo-photo/31242/feed6Photo allegedly shows a UFO hovering over Manchesterhttp://www.openminds.tv/photo-allegedly-shows-ufo-hovering-manchester/31023
http://www.openminds.tv/photo-allegedly-shows-ufo-hovering-manchester/31023#commentsMon, 17 Nov 2014 16:58:45 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=31023A witness photographed what appears to be a saucer-shaped UFO hovering over the English city of Manchester. John Hindley was at his friend’s house in Middleton, Manchester on Friday, November 7. He awoke at approximately 10:00 a.m. after reportedly feeling a “lunar pull” drawing him to the window. Standing at this third floor window, Hindley ...

]]>A witness photographed what appears to be a saucer-shaped UFO hovering over the English city of Manchester.

John Hindley was at his friend’s house in Middleton, Manchester on Friday, November 7. He awoke at approximately 10:00 a.m. after reportedly feeling a “lunar pull” drawing him to the window. Standing at this third floor window, Hindley felt compelled to take a photograph. So he pulled out his cellphone and snapped two photos. The photos show an illuminated saucer-shaped object seemingly hovering over the city.

(Credit: John Hindley/Cavendish)

According to the Daily Mail, “The object – which is oval shaped with lights emanating from it – remained in the same position in the sky for half an hour before disappearing.”

Hindley states that, when he photographed the object, he assumed is “was a glitch in the sky.”

Two days after the incident, he claims he felt compelled to look at the photos. He asserts that, when he viewed the images, he felt a “magnetic pull – a lunar pull,” like when he was drawn to the window. “I definitely think it could have been a UFO,” Hindley suggests.

Although the object in these photos that were taken through a window appear to be simple reflections of a light source inside the room, Hindley comments, “I really don’t think it is a reflection – look at the saucer shaped object and the lights and the two lines coming out of the bottom.”

The available details pertaining to this sighting are conflicting. Although reports describe the object hovering in the sky for half an hour, the Daily Express also reports that Hindley “didn’t see what he had managed to photograph until two days later when his mysterious ‘pulling’ sensation returned.” So it’s unclear if the witness actually observed the mysterious object during the time the photographs were taken.

]]>http://www.openminds.tv/photo-allegedly-shows-ufo-hovering-manchester/31023/feed0Australian woman believes she photographed UFOs over Armidalehttp://www.openminds.tv/australian-woman-believes-photographed-ufos-armidale/25732
http://www.openminds.tv/australian-woman-believes-photographed-ufos-armidale/25732#commentsWed, 15 Jan 2014 18:29:52 +0000http://www.openminds.tv/?p=25732A woman snapped a photo that shows two orb UFOs in the sky above the Australian city of Armidale in New South Wales. Vangie Esterbauer shot the photo last week from an undisclosed location somewhere along Armidale’s Rockvale Road. The witness says the two objects in the photo are not airplanes. And Eran Segev from ...

Vangie Esterbauer shot the photo last week from an undisclosed location somewhere along Armidale’s Rockvale Road. The witness says the two objects in the photo are not airplanes. And Eran Segev from Australian Skeptics Inc. agrees. But he also does not think the photographed orbs were in the sky either. Segev does not suspect the photo is a fake, but as he explains to The Armidale Express, he believes the two orbs in the photo are simply reflections of light.

He suggests to the Express that the photo was likely taken from behind a window because “there are several reflective artefacts” in the photo. If that is the case, it certainly increases the possibility that the orbs were the reflections of lights hanging behind the photographer. Segev adds, “I’m not an expert on these things but as an amateur photographer I’m almost 100 per cent sure that’s what it is.”

The reflection possibility could be supported or eliminated with clarification from the photographer. But, so far, it is unclear if the photo was taken from behind a window or not.

]]>A webcam in Cornwall, England captured beams of light, seemingly shooting down from the sky and into the Polperro harbour.

A vertical beam of blue light appeared on the webcam, which belongs to the Polperro News General Store. After seeing the light beam on the webcam, William Fathers of Polperro News posted the following photo and message to the store’s Twitter account:

But as the Daily Mail points out, Fathers was only joking “that he feared for a minute an alien such as E.T. was descending when he saw the strong blue shaft of light on the harbour.”

The beam of blue light was simply the sun reflecting off the water. Fathers explained to the Daily Mail, “It happens at this time of year when the sun gets low in the sky . . . The light bounces off the sea and hits the camera. It’s just one of those things but it does look weird.”

Four UFOs over the marina. (Credit: Ivan Mikkelsen/The Daily Telegraph)

A witness photographed four UFOs in the sky above Tom Ugly’s Bridge Marina in Sydney, Australia on Monday, May 28.

The witness, Ivan Mikkelsen, was on his boat in the marina when he noticed the four bright lights in the sky. He initially saw them through his boat’s window, so he thought they might simply be reflections. But when he stepped outside, Mikkelsen still saw the lights hovering in the evening sky. The UFOs were high in the sky, and Mikkelsen thought they might be airplanes. But after watching them hover in the same place for more than ten minutes, he dismissed his airplane theory.

Five other witnesses reportedly stopped to watch the strange lights in the sky. All the witnesses saw the objects blink and disappear in an instant.

The picture taken by Mikkelsen appears to be from inside his boat, so it is not possible to corroborate his statement that the UFOs were also visible outside his boat, and therefore not a reflection in the window. But if his testimony, and of the other witnesses, is considered, then it is likely that four strange lights were, in fact, hovering over the marina.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Airservices Australia received no reports of unusual aerial objects on that Monday.

What are your thoughts? Do you believe the witness actually observed these four objects in the sky as he claims, or does his picture lead you to believe the lights were just reflections in his boat’s window? Share your thoughts with us on our Facebook page.